Comments on: Updated: ‘Voting on November 7, 2006’ https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98voting-on-november-7-2006%e2%80%99/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Christopher Link https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98voting-on-november-7-2006%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-674 Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:54:59 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=318#comment-674 Not voting puts you in with the derelicts and winos, electorally speaking. Not to mention that old chestnut about all evil needing is for good to do nothing.
Why not put “None of the Above” on the ballot instead? If it ‘wins’, a new election is called – and all the losers are ineligible.
If memory serves, we’re supposed to have the power, right?

]]> By: Mikael Widmark https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98voting-on-november-7-2006%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-658 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 22:38:13 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=318#comment-658 In U.S. House races we should support Republican candidates consistently. Why? Because if -god forbid- Nancy Pelosi becomes Speaker of the House, then it’s all over for America. She will ensure the passage of a so-called “guest” worker bill, which would mean that anyone willing to work for minimum wage would be granted permanent recidency. The election of Nancy Pelosi as House speaker could prove as ominous for America as the acceptance of the strange Greek wooden horse proved to be for Troy. Which is why you should vote Republican at least in the U.S. House races.

]]> By: Frank Brady https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98voting-on-november-7-2006%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-655 Mon, 06 Nov 2006 15:55:51 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=318#comment-655 Is it not clear that the entire American political apparatus has become utterly corrupt?

Can anyone seriously claim that the monstrous centralized Washington government retains even a remnant of constitutional legitimacy?

The only moral choice that remains is to refrain from participating by withholding our votes. Our continued participation confers an undeserved legitimacy on a process that is on a trajectory to enslave us all.

]]> By: Alex https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98voting-on-november-7-2006%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-646 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 14:58:48 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=318#comment-646 Ahh, Doc Block. That guy is crazy – and somehow strangely likeable..

I don’t think I’ll be voting for either of the parties, though. I remember reading a piece on why one shouldn’t vote by Wendy McElroy. I don’t frequent her site, but I think it was one of the best peices I had ever read on why one shouldn’t vote. Libertarian parties are not classical liberals, and Democrats and Conservatives are really two sides of the same coin.

It boggles my mind, really, as to how anyone can side with any Democrat or Conservative.

]]> By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/%e2%80%98voting-on-november-7-2006%e2%80%99/comment-page-1/#comment-642 Sun, 05 Nov 2006 13:06:37 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=318#comment-642 Libertarians are lame players in the game. Some are so way out that they are impossible to accept under any circumstance. Others are brilliant and I wish I could vote for them twice. But the unhappy truth is that American voters are generally not educated enough or politcally astute enough to get past the bull feathers foisted on them by the MSM. Third parties are not an option. A vote for a Libertarian is a left-handed vote for the Democrats.

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